The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-30
'goeals.
North Carolina State Board of Agri-
culture.

District. r.. L.
DR.. A. g. Brooks, I'd Congressional Dis
trict.
H. L. Grant, 3rd Congressional District.
Col. w. F. Green, 4th Congressional
District.
]. H. Murrow, 9Th Congressional Dis
trict.s
S. B. Alexander, 9th Congressional Dis
trict (elect).
A. Leazer, eth Congressional District.
Burwell Blanton, 9Th Congressional Dis
trict.
DR.. C. D. Smith, 9th Congressional Dis
trict.
OFFICERS.
John Robinson, Commissioner.
Tx. Bruner, Acting Secretary.
C. w. Dabney, Jr., Chemist and Direc-
tor of Experiment Station.
John T.. Patrick, General Agent Immi-
grafton.
TRUSTEES OF THE AGRICULTURAL N ME-
CHANfCAL COLLEGE
The members of the Board of Agricul-
ture, to whom are added:
w. S. Primrose, Wake.
G. q. French, Fender.
H. E. Fries, Forsyth.
Gen. R. Barringer, Mecklenburg.
Elias Carr, E~dgecombe.
STATE GRANGE PATRONS OF HUsBANDRY.
w. R. Williams, Falkland, Pitt county,
Master.
DIR. J. w. Seasons, Bethel, Lecturer.
W. H. Powell, Battleboro, Treasurer.
E. T. J. Ludwig, Mt. Pleasant, Secre-
tary.
COMMITTEE.
Rev. VIM. Grant, Jackson, N. G.
Capt. W. II. Powell, Battleboro,
N. 7. Ridley, Boykins, Va.
THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS ASSOCIATION.
President-Elias Carr, Old Sparta,
Edgecombe county. :
Vice Presidents-W. R. Williams, 1st
Congressional District; w. A. Darden,
I'd Congressional District; G. q. French,
Sd Congressional District; W. F. Green,
18th Congressional District; H. E. Fries,
9Th Congressional District; is. Reid, 9th
Congressional District; w. H.. Hobson,
9TH Congressional District; Burwell Blan-
ton, 9Th Congressional District; W. II.
Mcclure, 9th Congressional District.
B. F. Hester, Oxford, Secretary; S.
Ohio Wilson, Vineyard, and w. E. Ben
bow, Oak Ridge, Assistant Secretaries.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
d. Reid Parker, Trinity College, A.
McIver, Oaks, D. Men. Mckay, Averas-
boro; l.. L. Polk, Raleigh, and G. Nc
Donald, Concord.
N. C. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
W. G. Upchurch, Raleigh, President;
John Nichols, Raleigh, Secretary.
NORTH CAROLINA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
President-J. Van Lindley, Pomona.
Secretarv-S. Ohio Wilson, Vineyard.
Treasurer. A. Lineback, Salem.
-Grasshoppers are playing havoc in
some of the Western States.
The cool weather for the past several
days indicate that there has been a fall of
hail. S
See the advertisement of Messrs. j.
McKimmon & Coz, Wholesale and Retail
Druggists. II ;,
Extensive preparations are making
for the celebration of the fourth of July
in the City Of Oaks"
Several cotton blooms have been
brought in and reported. The crops are
much more forward than last year.
See advertisement of our State Uni
versity and write to W. T. Patterson,
Chapel Hill, n. c., for a catalogue.
Destructive fires have ldevoured thou
sands of dollars worth of property in
Dayton, w. T., Jacksonville, Fla, and
Louisville. KY. g.
The wires of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, if stretched in one
continuous line,> would go around the
earth eighteen. times. ]
II is said that the acreage devoted to
clover and the grasses this season in
Wake and Franklin counties, is over one
hundred per cent. greater than ever be-
fore.
The Goldsboro Messenger has been
removed to Wilmington, where it will be
published as a daily and weekly. Its
first issue from it's new home will appear
this week. -
The splendid .condition of the crops
in Louisiana and Texas, and the equally
thrifty condition of the Farmers Alliance
in those States, make our brethren of the
Trans Mississinni brilliant ond bon,